"Haunted Dixie is an essential collection of spooky stories in which ghosts and apparitions express this supernatural spirit of the southern states. Its fourteen selections abound with haunts and specters that capture the history, traditions, lore, and local color that set the South apart from any othe region of America. Each state is represented by a tale of terror steeped in the eerie atmosphere of the southern Gothic: A curse from the deathless past imperils a living Louisiana belle in Talmage Powell's "The Jabberwock Valentine." A haunted house in North Carolina gives up its buried secrets in Orson Scott Card's "Lost Boys." A Civil War soldier from Tennessee fights a final battle from beyond the grave in Ambrose Bierce's "Two Military Executions." The romance of New Orleans' historic Storeyville district manifests as a spectral femme fatale in Robert Bloch's "Sleeping Beauty."" --provided by Goodreads.